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In an interview with today’s FAZ, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé made the following, rather striking statement:
“The dissolution of the eurozone is not acceptable, because it would also be the dissolution of Europe. If that happens, then eve…

Today’s Le Monde has a juicy example of one of the upcoming policy priorities in the European Commission’s in-tray. A study* has apparently been submitted to the Commission recommending the introduction of EU-wide standards to reduce the amount of ener…

For our Italian-speaking readers, you can listen to our interview with the European Council on Foreign Relations on the situation in Italy and its potential implications for the future of the single currency.

In the early hours of this morning, Spain’s ruling Socialist party, PSOE, and the conservative opposition, PP party, brokered a deal on amending the constitution to include limits on public deficit and debt. An idea that was pushed by Germany and Franc…

The eurozone’s embarrassing collateral-for-loans spat continues, with member states disagreeing over whether Finland should be allowed to get collateral from Greece in return for giving Athens fresh loans. Who should guarantee the guarantees remains th…

An interesting op-ed in Le Monde from Bastien Nivet of the Paris-based IRIS think-tank notes,
“A new notion is beginning to dominate the debate on the international action of the European Union: the Ashtonisation of the EU. Inspired by the surname of […

Last week we asked in passing when Swedish PM Frederik Reinfeldt would drop his support for Sweden joining the euro. Well, it turns out that he may not have to, as the main opposition party – the Social Democrats – have made that decision for him. Tomm…